Editing Caste (section)

=== Pakistan ===
{{Main|Caste system among South Asian Muslims}}
McKim Marriott claims a social stratification that is hierarchical, closed, endogamous and hereditary is widely prevalent, particularly in western parts of Pakistan. Frederik Barth in his review of this system of social stratification in Pakistan suggested that these are castes.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Fredrick |last=Barth |date=December 1956 |title=Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan |journal=[[American Anthropologist]] |volume=58 |issue=6 |pages=1079–1089 |doi=10.1525/aa.1956.58.6.02a00080 |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Zeyauddin |last=Ahmed |title=The New Wind: Changing Identities in South Asia |editor-first=Kenneth |editor-last=David |publisher=Aldine Publishing Company |year=1977 |isbn=978-90-279-7959-9 |pages=337–354}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=McKim |last=Marriott |title=Caste ranking and community structure in five regions of India and Pakistan |year=1960 |oclc=186146571}}</ref>